About
JILL RANDALL makes sculpture and installations, and has exhibited her work extensively in galleries in the U.K. and abroad. Group exhibitions have included “European Sculpture-Diversity and Difference in Practice”, Martini Arte Internazionale, Turin, Italy, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Cornerhouse, Manchester , Artists Space, New York, Galeria da Restauracao, Olhao, Portugal, and Stadt Kunsthaus, Bocholt, Germany.
Recent solo shows include “Golden Venture” at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea,”Light Matter”, the Lowry, Salford, – a commission from the Lowry for new work produced from an Artist’s Residency at Magnesium Elektron, Salford, and “Secrets and Lives”, the Yard Gallery, Nottingham.
Randall has been the recipient of many individual awards, including a Travel Scholarship to Barcelona from the McColl Arts Foundation and a Royal Society of Arts “Art for Architecture” award. She was Guest Artist-In-Residence at Claremont School of Art, Perth ,Western Australia in 1994, and UK Residencies have included Grizedale Forest ,Cumbria in 1999, and The Irwell Sculpture Trail in 2001.
Randall recently received an “Artists At Work “ Award from Cywaith Cymru-Artworks Wales, for an Artists Residency at Parys Mountain Copper Mine and Amlwch Industrial Heritage Centre, Anglesey, North Wales, continuing an ongoing series of collaborations with industry and manufacturing processes.
Randall has an important parallel practice working on major public art projects in collaboration with other professionals, 3 of which have won national awards. She is half of the “Dogs In Space” public art partnership with artist Alan Birch.
Randall is a Lecturer and Researcher on the B.A. Visual Arts Course at the University of Salford, and is a member of the European Sculpture Network.